This product can be used to upgrade any previous version of Chess Assistant to the newest Chess Assistant 18 instalment. When ordering, specify your previous product's license key in the 'comments' field.

What's new in Chess Assistant 18:

Houdini 6 is once again the confirmed leader among chess playing programs, having won the TCEC 2018 Championship for chess engines. Houdini 6 continues the impressive surge made by its predecessor by adding another 50 to 60 Elo in strength, to become once again the strongest engine that money can buy.
1-year Chess King LEARN subscription, giving access to all courses available there (60 as of Dec.2017 and counting)! The courses are available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and include such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0, Chess: From Beginner to Club Player, Chess Strategy, Chess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.
Updated databases now contain 6.8 million games in total!

Premium Game Service 2018 - auto database updates for 2017-2018

1-year access to Lomonosov Tablebases! The subscription will be active for 1 year starting the date of activation at the tablebases service.

Chess Assistant 18 with Houdini 6 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess through the Internet, analyzing games, or playing chess against the computer.

Chess Assistant 18 includes grandmaster level playing programs, Chess Opening Encyclopedia mode, a powerful search system, the unique Tree mode, databases of about 6.8 million games in total (Nov. 2, 2017) that can be automaticaly updated 3000 new games every week for free, 1-year access to all courses at Chess King Learn (How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription) and to 7-piece Lomonosov Tablebases at tb7.chessok.com and more!

Houdini 6, the World's strongest chess program, continues the impressive surge made by its predecessor by adding another 50 to 60 Elo in strength, to become once again the strongest engine that money can buy.

Multi-pass game analysis is an advanced analysis method to fine-tune each step of the search. You can even choose different engines for each phase of the game.

Analysis markers allow you to mark selected positions for automatic analysis at a later time.

Interactive analysis allows you guide the engine in its analysis and pick lines, remembering the results.

Chess Opening Encyclopedia includes rich theoretical material on all openings, more than 8000 annotations by GM Kalinin and 40 million evaluations by strongest engines key positions. Customizable key system.

When it comes to searching, you will not find a more powerful system. Chess Assistant 18 offers search by position, header, maneuvers, material, comments, novelty search, advanced search by material in 12 regions of the board and more!